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VPRS 10803 Extractive Industry Search Permit Files

Public Record Office Victoria
Department of Minerals and Energy
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The series comprises files relating to the issue of search permits to undertake extractive industry. These files were maintained by the central office of the Mines Department (VA 612) and subsequent departments. 

The term Extractive Industry refers to the extraction of stone from land for commercial or construction purposes. This includes building, road and manufacturing works, and the manufacturing of materials such as pottery, bricks, tiles and cement products. Stone extracted may include sand, earth or soil, clay, peat, quartz, gravel or slate, or building stone such as sandstone or freestone, basalt, granite, limestone or rock, or other minerals.

Records may include: original application, locality plan, map search sheet, permit form, comments and conditions maintained by other government authorities affecting the issue and/or currency of the application/permit, copy of permit, fees, and letters of advice and request. Files may also include reports from applicant and/or applicant's technical adviser(s) detailing: the aims of the application, exploration program, results of search operations; land ownership issues and permittees observance to departmental instructions regarding agreements made to conditions of legislation; notice of cancellation or abandonment; and clerical action sheets.

The final status of the application/permit is recorded on the file cover, e.g. refused, expired, void.

Extractive Industries in Victoria were conducted under the Mines Act 1928 and subsequent Acts prior to the creation of the Extractive Industries Act 1966. This Act was amended in 1986, and then repealed by the Extractive Industries Development Act 1995. Victoria’s extractive industries are, as of 2009, primarily regulated under the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990, and associated Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) (Extractive Industries) Regulations 2019.

The equivalent central files for Extractive Industry Licences and Leases can be found in VPRS 10804 and VPRS 10805 respectively.

Corresponding working plans and proposals for some of the permits, believed to be maintained by the regional offices of the Department, can be located in VPRS 19144 Extractive Industry Working Plans and Proposals.

Data time period: [1968 TO 1983]

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